{"id":337779,"date":"2026-03-09T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337779\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:49:07","slug":"cork-man-who-admitted-possessing-e70k-worth-of-cannabis-has-sentencing-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337779\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork man who admitted possessing \u20ac70k worth of cannabis has sentencing adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cannabis worth \u20ac70,000 was seized by garda\u00ed at a house in Mayfield in September 2024 and now the man who admitted possessing the drugs has had sentencing adjourned until June 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Richard O\u2019Callaghan, aged 32, of 33 Liffey Park, Mayfield, Cork, pleaded guilty to counts under the Misuse of Drugs Act, the most serious of which refers to cannabis worth more than \u20ac13,000, the threshold figure which allows for a minimum jail term of 10 years unless there are exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The charges relate to September 2024 at the defendant\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Helen Boyle adjourned sentencing until June 26 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cannabis worth \u20ac70,000 was seized by garda\u00ed at a house in Mayfield in September 2024 and now the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-337779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}